Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:25:09 +0200
2009/11/18 O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:44:12 +0200
>> Dan Naumov <dan.naumov_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> WHy not just build from source?
>>>
>>> Because expecting users to build from source to install or update
>>> their systems in the year 2009 is an outdated concept, this is why we
>>> have freebsd-update in the first place.
>>>
>>
>> This is such a load of BS I could fertilize 100 acres with it.
>>
>> In this day of inexpensive computers with fast mulit-core CPUs and
>> gigabytes of memory this argument is completely lame.
>>
>> Fifteen years ago I would have agreed, because it took days to build
>> world and the kernel.  Been there, done that.
>>
>> ---
>> Gary Jennejohn
>
> Been there, did it, too.
>
> Fools, conceptually compromised by Microsofts closed-binary-strategy, often
> complain about 'why compiling, it is an outdated concept ...'. It is, simply
> in my opinion, a helpless selfdefense: they do not understand much about
> operating systems (me, too) and never try to understand the concept behind
> (me not). But today, having sophisticated binary update facilities, it seems
> to speed up a worse development: many companies save the computer-scientist
> to maintain their stuff - because they have a bunch of cheap fools
> 'fertilizing the acres of foolsness' and pretending being the master of the
> puppets by hitting an 'update-key' and everythings works magically ...

This is unreasonable elitism. Having to jump through hoops, manually
adjust Makefiles and spend time compiling just to apply a system
update does NOT make you a "guru". It makes you waste time that could
be better spent elsewhere.

- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov
Received on Wed Nov 18 2009 - 13:25:10 UTC

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